

Launching his own piano service business in 1991, Paul tuned pianos for The Detroit Public School System, Wayne State University, Grosse Pointe Public schools, and numerous area churches. During those years, he honed his skills as a tuner and piano rebuilder while being avidly involved in the community as both a vocalist and as the first President of the internationally acclaimed Detroit Concert Choir. After three years of studying piano restoration, he relocated to Detroit to accept a position as head technician for one of the largest used piano stores in southeast Michigan.

In 1984, Paul entered the piano business in Jacksonville, FL, as a piano mover and apprentice piano technician. Paul is also the head technician and piano rebuilder and piano restoration specialist at Piano Emporium in Asheville and Weaverville NC. Morganton's COMMA theater, The Orange Peel in Asheville, Harrah's casino in Cherokee are a few of the concert venues where he frequently tunes. He is the piano tuner for Burke county public schools and many area churches and private homes. Paul has been tuning pianos in Western North Carolina since 2002. Regulation of a piano is the many adjustments made in the piano action piano which need to be made uniform throughout the piano for the pianist touch and to feel optimal control.while playing. Broken parts from age or abuse are also common. Some of the most common reasons are the swelling of felts from humidity, or foreign objects jamming between keys. There are over 10,000 parts in your piano and there are any number of reasons which can cause sticky keys. The second time is a fine piano tuning as would be done on a regular tuning. The first time thru, the piano tuner brings the piano back close to where it is supposed to sound. A pitch raise is like tuning the piano twice. When a piano is left for too long without a good piano tuning it may go so flat that it will need to have a "pitch raise". Most notes have 3 strings which have to match each other perfectly for the note to sound right. There are at least 225 strings in most pianos and the piano tuner needs to adjust each one to make sure your instrument sounds the way it is supposed to. This effects the piano tuning as it will stretch the strings and cause the piano to go out of tune. Changes in temperature and humidity cause the wood in the piano to swell and contract. Piano tuning is the single most important way to care for your piano. If you are looking for a piano tuner in Burke county, McDowell county, Caldwell or Catwba counties, and the cities of Morganton, Marion, Old Fort, Lenoir, and Hickory we can tune or repair your piano so that you can make beautiful music!
